Everyone loves this mod. ;)

Can't wait to see the new additions mid May. :D

Phalynx: That would be very very much appreciated :D
On a side note, a futre added feature I think would be AWESOME would be to integrate this with the subscriptions feature. Say for example I have an advertiser that wants a forum for their products and it lists it on the front page. They just set up a subscription and it auto creates the forum in the Sponsors Forums section. :) Ooo I see a lot of potential for this one :D

This should be made like MySpace where it doesn't create a forum on the actual board but creates a posting area in the group section.

Or just at least make it so people including admins and mods on the board can ONLY see forums THEY are apart of.

I mean otherwise it's going to look over flooded and stupid I think it would be best if there was a discussions area on the group page itself that's just my idea and suggestion would be nice to see.

Rick

Is there a way to make the current moderator team access the forums with their mod tools, by letting the social group creator be the only mod is not a good choice IMO :)

THanks

If the SGF is hidden and private, why should the mod team have access to it? Defeats the point of having it private and hidden in the first place. Admins of course should be able to have access though (with an option not to be able to) but not mods.

- Private social groups forums are not protected yet


^ any word on this?

He mentioned earlier that it will be in the next version, I think.

Reserved :D

will try this tonight

When a social group is deleted, the forum isn't.

Very nice. Not sure if I will install or not but very nice mod!

Readme:
- By deleting a group the forum should also be deleted/archived. Currently this has to be done manually

Very nice!! Excellent work!!!

i tried this mod on my forum last night but can't find the "create forum" altough i set the minimum member to create forum is 1

any comment on performance issue with 450.000 members on board?

Enter the social group and at the bottom bar where it has edit/delete group, pending members, etc., the link to create the forum is in there.

Installed! Thank you! Until this mod was released, I had no intention of using the Social Groups option.

I think a good interim solution would be making the forum not viewable on the Vb index. That way it is still slightly private because you would have to atleast entire the club to get the link to the forum.

This is a freaking awesome idea for a hack!!!

I've been wanting a hack like this for a long time - only one who came close was vBClubs and even then it wasn't truly what I wanted. I can't wait till the private forum part becomes available. Especially if it hid it from other user groups automatically.

In the meantime is there anyway to manually hide this except for members of the group? I am trying to work out how, but can't cos there isn't any 'permissions' for the group - is there any wya around this shortterm?

i dont think there is a way but the next version would support that.... and yes its the only real problem with this script. this really needs to make it in and im hoping it will because this is an outstanding hack.

also one other little thing i would like to see added maybe.... have a similar section to "recent posts" showing on the group page in vbulletin. much like vbadvanced where we can get an idea of the forum w/o having to visit it.

Nice hack. Interesting too. About three years or so back, there was a hack here that did something similar. It allowed users to set up their own forum within a forum. It didn't las long as Jelsoft felt it was "subleasing" vBulletin.

I can't remember the author, but it seems like he was too far ahead of the times, coming up with social groups before the concept was mainstream.

At any rate, love this hack and the new direction forums in general are taking. Definitely HOTM material.

But cant you set the default display for each new forum to 0 so that it is hidden? If I do that for a top level forum it is hidden. Some hacks like the VBTube Pro do this so that the comments forums are hidden.

SocialForums has been nominated for Mod of the Month:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177690

That is in fact a really good idea, which can be set via AdminCP/Settings/SocialForums/Visibility of social forums

I know that case, and it has been clearified with vBulletin in front of the release of this hack.

I wasn't suggesting there was any similar issues with this hack (which I voted for as MOTM). I just thought it is ironic that what that coder was tying to do then has become so mainstream now that we can apply a "social network" label to it.

Same here, I remember the old one and I vehemently supported it.

This is a fantastic idea and I appercaite you coding it!

Thanks again!

-Jason

Thank you for this. I just had a member ask about this ability yesterday. My question is, is there a way to set it so that only one social group can start a forum? I am worried about server issues if I allow all of the groups to start their own forum but one of the groups is a book discussion group so this would be a wonderful option for them. If this was asked somewhere else, I'm sorry. I did read the other pages but I've been reading so many different mods lately and at different points I can't remember what is what.

Thanks!

They can create the forum and after that set the minimum members required to f.e. 9999

Ahhhh, very smart. Thanks Phalynx! :up:

OK, I have another question. When trying to open a new forum I get invalid forum specified. In a previous post this was answered with:

If you get a "Invalid Forum Specified" you should check parent forum setting in AdminCP/Settings/SocialForums

I don't understand what the parent forum should be set as. Currently it says 1. What does it mean by parent forum? I don't want it on the main forum page. I hope that this makes sense.

Thanks!

All forums have an ID, make sure that the parent forum/category ID is the same one you want your social forums to be in. For instance:

General (1)
Gaming (3)
Social Forums (7)
- SG Forums1 (2)
- SG Forums2 (5)
- SG Forums3 (6)

In brackets is the forum ID, basically in this case I would set the parent forum as "7".

I'm sorry, I am confused. Do I need to create a parent forum on the main page? If so, then how does that differentiate a social forum from all of the other forums I have set up? I thought the social forum went in the social group area where they are currently posting. Do I great a forum or child forum and then make in not visible so that it only shows up in the group area?

Thanks!

You can set your parents forum display level to 0 to hide it. All social forums are hidden then.

Awesome, it works like a charm. :up: Thanks again Phalynx!

Sorry, one final question (I hope). How do I prevent posts from the social group forum from showing up in the new posts search?

Thanks!

Go to the forum and edit the settings, you want to turn off "Index New Posts in Search Engine" and set "Show Private Forum" to no. The old posts will still be viewable however.

Fantastic! Thanks Varsh! That setting will help me in the future also. Now I have everything set just the way I want it. Thanks everyone for your help. It's been greatly appreciated and I learned some new things along the way. You definitely get my vote for MOTM!

This looks like a great mod.
The default vb social groups looks kind of messy now with the group messages. It would be nice to see them organized as threads like how a forum works perhaps with stickys and all.
I hope to install this once the private groups protection issue is solved :)

Varsh, posts are still showing in the new posts search. Is there something else I need to do? Thanks!

Try rebuilding the cache and posts, if that doesn't work then I guess it's just waiting for the privacy settings which'll hopefully be this week or next.